Record-ejector for phonographs.



E. GILBERT.

RECORD EJEGTOB FOR PHONOGRAPHS.

APPLICATION FILED 1130.18, 1902.

969,946 Patented Sept. 13, 1910.

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QM/w g I Y v l I 6% Unrrnn snares ELAN GILBERT, PORTLAND, OREGON; MATTIE It. GILIBEBT'GUARDIAN OF SAID rn'rnnr orrrcn ELAM GILBERT, INSANE.

RECORILEJECTOB EOE PHONZOGEAPHS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 13, 1910.

Application Med December 18, 1902. Slerial No. 135,691.

--out injury to the wax surface of the said record, thereby obviating mutilation of the record by being required to loosen and draw the record from the record cylinder by hand.

To comprehend the invention reference should be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a detail front view in elevation, partly broken away, illustrating the position of the ejector when thrown to eject the record from, the record cylinder; Fig. 2

is a front view illustrating the position of the ejector when the record is inward its full distance; Fig. 3 is a top plan View of the mechanism disclosed by Fig. 2 of the drawings, the record and the record cylinder being partly broken and Fig. 4 is an end view in elevation, the record being broken away.

The numeral 1 is used to indicate the phonograph bed, and 2 the record cylinder. U on this cylinder slips the record 3, being he d thereon by friction.-

To the bed of the phonograph is connected the ejector for removing the record from the cylinder, the same comprising a lever 4t secured to one end of the oscillatory shaft 5, which shaft works in bearings 6 attached to the bed 1 This lever 4; is normally held upward by the pressure of spring 7, inter-- I wardly extending lever or ejector arms 9,

the upper end of which arms rest immediately backof the lnner edge of the record 3 so that when said arms are thrown forward, by the downward movement ofthe ward or outward upon the cylinder 2 with an even pressure beyond the receiving end of the said cylinder. If the lever 4 be thrown downward under a quick movement, the record 3 maybe ejected the cntire length of the record cylinder. However, the object is simply to force the outer portion of the record a short distance beyond the receiving end of the record cylinder, so as to enable the sznne to be removed easily by the opera tor and thereby doing away with the neccs sity of exerting strain'upon the record for this purpose. By thus ejecting the record from the record cylinder, danger of mutilating the record by pulling same off of the said record cylinder is avoided.

To provide against the. lever or ejector arms injuring the inner edge'of the record '3 against which they act, each arm has secured thereon anelastlc cushlon, or sleeve 10 which bears upon the edge of'the record during the operation of ejecting same.

' Having thus described the inventiom'wha't is claimed as new and desired to be protected by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In a phonograph, the combination with the record cylinder, of the' ejector arm's arranged to bear against the'inner e e of the record, andmeans whereby the e ector arms are actuated to foroethe record o'utwe rdly upon the record cylinder.

2. In a phonogrz h, the combination'with the phonograph bed of the record cylinder, of an oscillatory shaft attached to the.bed,- a lever for actuating same, the ejector arms carried thereby, and a spring for restoring the oscillatory shaft to its normal 3. In a phonograph, the combination with the record cylinder, of lever actuated means whereby a record is ejected from the record cylinder.

4. In a phonograph, the combination 'with the record cylinder, of the ejector arranged to bear against the inner edge'of the record, a protecting cushion o'r sleeve secured osition.

to said arm, and means whereby the ejector I 5 consisting of a lever mounted upon the pho:

nogreph structure for ejecting the record from'1ts'mandre1- 8. In a phonograph, the combination with a. phonograph record, of means mounted 1o upon the phonograph structure for ejecting the record from its su port.

9. In a; telking mac 'ne,'the combination with a talk-111g machine record support, of

means mounted upon the talking 'machme seems structure for eject g a record f m said 15]- support. Y

10. In a talking machi e, the combination with a talking machi e recor support, of means on the talking machine structure 0 engaging a talkingrecord and shiitingthe 29 samerelative to the su port, f

In, witness whereof have hereunto set my hand.

ELAM GILBERT. Witnesses I N. .A. Aolgnn D. B -'.RIQHARDB. 

